US7345973B2 - Multi-layer writable optical record carrier with an optimum power calibration area, and method and apparatus for forming optimum power calibration areas on such a record carrier - Google Patents

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  • the present invention relates to a writable optical record carrier, and particularly to a recordable WORM- or RW-disc, comprising a plurality of recording layers separated by a spacer material, each recording layer comprising an optimum power calibration (OPC) area. It further relates to a method and an apparatus for forming optimum power calibration areas on such a writable optical record carrier.
  • OPC optimum power calibration
  • a complementary approach to obtain high storage capacities is to increase the number of recording layers. For example, by introducing n information storage layers, an n-fold increase in data capacity is obtained. This latter approach is currently followed for DVD+R, DVD+RW, BD-R, and BD-RW media Two-fold increase (in a dual-layer disc) is known, while four-fold increase (in a quadruple-layer disc) is being investigated.
  • dye recording in the case of write once media such as CD-R, DVD+R and DVD-R
  • phase-change recording in the case of rewritable media such as CD-RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and BD-RW.
  • Phase-change recording layers commonly comprise a phase-change material that is typically an alloy with a durable polycrystalline structure sandwiched in a stack between two dielectric ZnS—SiO 2 layers.
  • the energy of a writing laser beam, modulated by a recording signal, with which the record carrier is irradiated will to a large extent be absorbed by the phase change material, thereby inducing a phase change from a crystalline phase to an amorphous state.
  • the crystalline phase (ground state) has a high reflectivity
  • the amorphous phase (written state) has a reduced reflectivity. Therefore, the recording layer reflects a reading beam focused on said recording stack with different intensities depending on whether it strikes a written area (mark) or an unwritten area (land).
  • Dye recording layers are typically composed of an organic dye layer comprising dye materials such as, for example, cyanine, phthalocyanine, or metallized azo, and a reflective metal layer, typically made of gold, silver, or aluminum.
  • a writing laser beam will be partially absorbed by the recording layer, thereby durably and irreversibly bleaching and decomposing the dye material.
  • a reading beam striking a mark written in that manner will be partially scattered by that mark. Consequently, the intensity of the light reflected at the reflective metal layer depends on whether the reading beam strikes a mark or passes the recording layer almost undisturbed.
  • the recording status of a layer induces a change in the average reflection of the layer and also affects its transmission.
  • Stray light generated at the out-of-focus layers is proportional to their average reflection within the NA of the objective lens, in turn depending on the presence of marks (representing data) in the out-of-focus layers in that region.
  • the presence of data in the out-of-focus layers results in different transmission properties of those layers.
  • the optical power that is received by the in-focus layer is altered, and different optimum conditions (that is, write power, focus offset, etc.) may be obtained depending on whether or not the surrounding layers contain data within the NA of the objective lens.
  • the drive performs an optimum power calibration procedure (OPC) prior to the recording process. From this OPC-procedure, the drive determines the optimum power for recording the data.
  • OPC optimum power calibration procedure
  • this OPC procedure is performed whenever a disc (either blank or partially recorded) is inserted in the drive.
  • the outcome of the OPC procedure for one layer may depend on the presence of data in the other layers.
  • this object is achieved by a writable optical disc for use in a recording device with an objective lens having an aperture NA, said disc comprising a plurality of recording layers L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 separated by a spacer material each time, each of the recording layers comprising an optimum power calibration area, wherein at least the optimum power calibration areas of the layers L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 2 or L 1 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 have a first portion with an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer, the optimum power calibration areas of each recording layer L 0 , . . .
  • Ln ⁇ 1 have a second portion with an average reflection value representative of an unrecorded layer, and said optimum power calibration areas partially overlap such that the first portions of each pair of consecutive recording layers Lk, Lk+1 form a step with a minimum step size w k,k+1 of
  • ⁇ denotes the maximum radial misalignment of each recording layer
  • ⁇ k,k+1 denotes the thickness of the spacer material between the consecutive layers Lk and Lk+1
  • n m is the refractive index of the spacer material
  • the invention takes into account that in write-once multi-layer media, preferably recording will be done layer-by-layer. This writing sequence may apply also in re-writable multi-layer discs.
  • the most logical implementation for layer-by-layer recording is top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top.
  • staircase shaped portions By defining staircase shaped portions, the effect of data in higher-lying layers and the absence of data in lower-lying layers, and vice versa, can be mimicked in the OPC-procedure.
  • This has the advantage that the same situation, that is reflection and/or transmission from higher- and lower-lying layers, is encountered every time—both during OPC and during user data recording—during testing and recording of the consecutive layers, thereby occupying a minimum space on the disc.
  • the width of the steps in the staircase is chosen such that it ensures that during the OPC-procedure stray light from higher-lying layers with respect to an incident light beam always originates from portions representative of recorded areas, while stray light from lower-lying layers always comes from portions representative of unrecorded areas, or vice versa, depending on the preferred order in which the layers are to be recorded.
  • said optimum power calibration areas are arranged near the center of said disc, said first portions forming concentric circles.
  • said optimum power calibration areas are arranged near the periphery of said disc, said first portions forming concentric circles.
  • the radiuses of the concentric circles decrease from recording layer to recording layer, viewed in a direction away from the side of said disc on which the light beam is incident.
  • the radiuses of the concentric circles increase from recording layer to recording layer, viewed in a direction away from the side of said disc on which the light beam is incident.
  • the above object of the invention is achieved by a method of forming optimum power calibration areas on a writable optical disc, said record disc comprising a plurality of recording layers L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 separated by a spacer material each time, wherein marks are written on said recording layers by means of a recording device with an objective lens having an aperture NA, thereby forming an optimum power calibration area on each of the recording layers such that at least the optimum power calibration areas of the layers L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 2 or L 1 , . . .
  • Ln ⁇ 1 have a first portion with an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer
  • the optimum power calibration areas of each recording layer L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 have a second portion with an average reflection value representative of an unrecorded layer
  • said optimum power calibration areas partially overlap such that the first portions of each pair of consecutive recording layers Lk, Lk+1 form a step with minimum step size of
  • ⁇ denotes the maximum radial misalignment of each recording layer
  • ⁇ k,k+1 denotes the thickness of the spacer material between the consecutive layers Lk and Lk+1
  • n m is the refractive index of the spacer material
  • said optimum power calibration areas are written near the center of said disc, said first portions forming concentric circles.
  • said optimum power calibration areas are written near the periphery of said disc, said first portions forming concentric circles.
  • the optimum power calibration areas are written such that the radiuses of the concentric circles decrease from recording layer to recording layer, viewed in a direction away from the light beam incidence side of said disc.
  • the optimum power calibration areas are written in such a way that the radiuses of the concentric circles increase from recording layer to recording layer, viewed in a direction away from the light beam incidence side of said disc.
  • an apparatus arranged for recording data on a writable optical disc, said disc comprising a plurality of recording layers L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 having a maximum radial misalignment e and being separated by a spacer material having a thickness ⁇ k,k+1 between every two consecutive layers Lk, Lk+1 and a refractive index n m , said apparatus comprising a writing unit with an objective lens having an aperture NA, said writing unit being arranged for writing marks on said recording layers, a control unit arranged for controlling said writing unit such that marks are written at predetermined positions of said recording layers, thereby forming an optimum power calibration area on each of the recording layers, wherein at least the optimum power calibration areas of the layers L 0 , .
  • Ln ⁇ 2 or L 1 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 have a first portion with an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer
  • the optimum power calibration areas of each recording layer L 0 , . . . , Ln ⁇ 1 have a second portion with an average reflection value representative of an unrecorded layer
  • said optimum power calibration areas partially overlap such that the first portions of each pair of consecutive recording layers Lk, Lk+1 form a step with a minimum step size of
  • w k , k + 1 2 ⁇ ⁇ + NA n m 2 - NA 2 ⁇ ⁇ k , k + 1 , and wherein the first portions of said plurality of recording layers have the form of a staircase.
  • the information corresponding to the maximum radial misalignment ⁇ of each recording layer, the thickness ⁇ k,k+1 of the spacer material between two consecutive layers Lk, Lk+1, and the refractive index n m of the spacer material may be stored on the record carrier itself.
  • it may be part of the information stored as a modulated wobble signal in the pre-groove of the disc in the case of a standard WORM or re-writable CD or DVD.
  • the information may be stored as (pre-)recorded data in the lead-in-track or elsewhere on the disc.
  • said apparatus further comprises means for deriving information from said writable optical disc corresponding to the maximum radial misalignment ⁇ of each recording layer, the thickness ⁇ k,k+1 of the spacer material between two consecutive layers Lk, Lk+1, and the refractive index n m of the spacer material.
  • said controlling unit is further arranged for storing information corresponding to the maximum number of tracks recorded in the second portion of any layer during an OPC-procedure and furthermore for writing marks on the other layers such that the same number of tracks are recorded in the second portions of the OPC areas of all layers.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross sectional schematic view of a multi-layer disc with staircase-shaped OPC-areas during an OPC operation;
  • FIG. 2 is a cross sectional schematic view of a multi-layer disc with staircase-shaped OPC-areas during an OPC operation in a different state;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view of the maximum misalignment of two recording layers in a multi-layer disc
  • FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional cut-out of a multi-layer disc with n recording layers iustrating the first layer L 0 and last layer L n ⁇ 1 ;
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional cut-out of a multi-layer disc with n recording layers illustrating a pair of consecutive layers L i and L i ⁇ 1 .
  • FIG. 1 shows a cross section of a first embodiment of a writable optical record carrier according to the present invention.
  • the writable optical record carrier in this case is a multi-layer disc 100 comprising four recording layers L 0 through L 3 , wherein L 0 is the first or outermost layer and L 3 the deepest layer with respect to an incident light beam.
  • L 0 defines the light beam incidence side of the disc.
  • Each layer L 0 to L 3 comprises an OPC-area 101 , 111 , 121 , and 131 , respectively.
  • Each of the OPC-areas except that of the deepest layer L 3 has a first portion 102 , 112 , and 122 , respectively, with an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer.
  • Each of the OPC-areas except that of the first layer L 0 has a second portion 113 , 123 , and 133 , respectively, with an average reflection value representative of an unrecorded layer.
  • each recording layer L 0 to L 3 comprises an unwritten data area 104 , 114 , 124 , 134 for storing control data or user data.
  • An OPC-test laser beam 106 is shown in FIG. 1 entering the disc from this incidence side. Arrows 105 , 115 , 125 indicate stray light being reflected at the first portions of the OPC-areas of the out-of-focus layers L 0 to L 2 , while the beam 106 is focused on the deepest layer L 3 . In this case it is sufficient to provide only the layers L 0 , L 1 , L 2 with first portions. Nevertheless, the layer L 3 may also be provided with a first portion having an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer.
  • FIG. 2 shows the same embodiment of a 4-layer disc 200 .
  • the OPC-test laser beam 206 in this case is focused on the second layer L 1 of the disc 200 , while arrows 205 , 225 , 235 indicate the light being reflected at the out-of-focus layers L 0 , L 2 , and L 3 . More precisely, the light is reflected at the first (written) portion 212 of the OPC-area of L 0 and at the second (unwritten) portions 223 , 233 of the OPC-areas of L 2 and L 3 , respectively.
  • the OPC-areas are arranged partially overlapping such that the first portions of the OPC-areas of each pair of consecutive recording layers form a step and that the OPC-areas of said plurality of recording layers have the form of a staircase.
  • These areas are also referred to as staircase areas because of their shape.
  • the direction of the staircase areas is defined by the order of recording the layers (top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top).
  • the order of recording is top-to bottom (L 0 to L 3 ). If reverse order of recording (bottom-to-top) is preferred, it will be sufficient to provide layer L 1 , L 2 , L 3 with first portions, only.
  • the OPC procedure is executed by a customary optical disc recorder before the actual recording process since it is not acceptable that, e.g. during real-time recording of a movie, a layer-jump requires a new OPC procedure to be performed, which would result in loss of part of the movie. Therefore, the OPC-areas should be present before the OPC procedure starts. They may be generated either by means of the recorder itself by writing suitable marks, e.g. when a “virgin” disc is mounted on the recorder the first time, or they may have been pre-recorded (ROM) on a ready-made disc.
  • ROM pre-recorded
  • a control unit may be provided in the recorder arranged for executing an OPC-area writing process before the OPC procedure starts if the recorder detects that no OPC-areas exist. Consequently, e.g. “dummy data” to be written by the writing unit may be stored in a table or memory of the recorder.
  • the control unit may furthermore be arranged for controlling the writing unit to generate a writing beam modulated in accordance with the stored dummy data. Then, marks are written at predetermined positions on the layers (in the example shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 , on the layers L 0 , L 1 , L 2 only) of the disc, thereby forming a first portion of an optimum power calibration area on each of these layers having an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer.
  • the data quality in the OPC-areas, both written by the recorder and pre-recorded, is not important, as long as it leads to an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer, e.g. 75% reflectivity of an unwritten initial-state layer and 25% reflectivity of a written (bleached or amorphous) area
  • the minimum step width is determined next. Two effects are considered: the misalignment or eccentricity of the layers and the apex angle of the light cone of the incident laser beam.
  • the layers in a multi-layer disc should be aligned with respect to a reference point, e.g. the ideal geometrical center of gravity of the disc.
  • a reference point e.g. the ideal geometrical center of gravity of the disc.
  • the tolerance in positioning of the individual layers in other words the eccentricity of the pre-groove-spiral of the layers, with respect to this reference point is ⁇ .
  • ⁇ the tolerance in positioning of the individual layers, in other words the eccentricity of the pre-groove-spiral of the layers, with respect to this reference point.
  • any pair of layers in the multi-layer disc is at most displaced by +2 ⁇ , or ⁇ 2 ⁇ , with respect to each other, see FIG. 3 .
  • Inner radiuses R min 302 and 312 of the OPC-areas of two exemplary layers are shown.
  • the start position of the OPC area on the deepest layer Ln ⁇ 1 of a n-fold layered disc is defined as R OPC,Ln ⁇ 1 .
  • the width of the spot W Ln ⁇ 1,L0 on the first layer L 0 with respect to the incident light can be calculated from equation (3) given above.
  • the second portion of the OPC-area in Ln ⁇ 1 should start at
  • the step size w k,k+1 between the first portions of two consecutive layers Lk and Lk+1 should be
  • w k , k + 1 2 ⁇ ⁇ + NA n m 2 - NA 2 ⁇ ⁇ k , k + 1 ( 5 )
  • ⁇ k,k+1 is the spacer thickness between consecutive layers, see FIG. 5 . Note that ⁇ k,k+1 may vary between different layers.
  • ⁇ k,k+1 is the spacer thickness between the layers k+1 and k.
  • the deepest layer Ln ⁇ 1 does not require a first portion having an average reflection value corresponding to a recorded layer since there is no deeper layer to be focused. Therefore, w n ⁇ 1 can also be set to 0.
  • the first layer L 0 does not require a second portion having an average reflection value corresponding to an unrecorded layer since the OPC-procedure, if necessary, may also be executed in the user data area of the first layer. Therefore, the maximum width of the OPC-area can be limited to w 0 .
  • the number of tracks in the first portions of the OPC-areas that need to contain (dummy) data is obtained by dividing the step width by the track pitch.
  • the second portions of the OPC-areas that is where the OPC-procedure takes place in a layer, are always defined adjacent to the first portions thereof. This ensures that for multiple OPC procedures on a single disc the requirements for data (no data) in the higher (lower) lying out-of-focus layers is met, particularly when each OPC on each layer uses the same number of tracks.
  • the total length available for the OPC area may be set by other requirements.
  • the apparatus for recording is arranged to (temporarily) store information corresponding to the maximum number of tracks (or data blocks) recorded on this layer during the OPC-procedure. Furthermore, it is arranged to record data or marks causing an average reflection value representative of a recorded layer on the other layers such that the same amount of tracks (data blocks) is recorded in the second portion of the OPC areas on all layers.
  • the second portion of the OPC area in L 0 starts right behind w 0 .
  • n m 1.55
  • the second portions of the OPC areas again start consecutive to their first portions.
  • each width w i is counted from the end (outer diameter) of the corresponding track at R max,Li .
  • the OPC should preferably be performed from the outer diameter towards inner diameter.
  • the written effects in the staircase area contain control information.
  • this invention is not limited to an optical record carrier comprising 2 or 4 layers, but also applies a record carrier comprising 3, 5, and more layers. It is furthermore not limited to inner or outer diameter OPC-areas, but may apply to any other arrangement of OPC-areas as well.
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